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(1973)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Tom and Becky are "engaged" (boyfriend/girlfriend)
  • The scene where Tom and Huck are going swimming, both boys' rears can be seen.
  • Becky calls tom philanderer.

Violence & Gore

  • Injun Joe, Muff and Doc Robinson have a scuffle in the graveyard that ends with Injun Joe stabbing Doc Robinson multiple times off-screen, although a bloody knife is visible when he reappears.
  • Tom's life is threatened multiple times by Injun Joe. A knife is thrown.
  • mild action.

Profanity

  • 3 damns

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Huck smokes a corncob pipe a few times. Huck and Tom also carve a pipe, which Huck lights and shares with Tom (whose curiosity about smoking is satisfied after one brief puff that nearly chokes him).
  • Judge Thatcher, the sheriff and another man are seen enjoying pipes after the town picnic.
  • Huckleberry Finn is seen smoking a pipe (same as in the original book described) for a few short seconds.
  • The usage of alcohol is in form of a song performed by character Muff Potter somehow glorified.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A skeleton spooks Becky in MacDougall's Cave. A man is briefly set on fire.
  • Injun Joe could possibly frighten some.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Tom gets spanked by the school teacher in one scene. In a later scene he gets slapped by his mother and quietly cries.

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